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alternatively, he should complete his Salah on the basis of his strong presumption.
In any case, he must repeat this Salah from the beginning. The mere intention of invalidating Salah is not sufficient. If this has not occurred for the first time but rather it happened even before, he should do what his strong presumption is; if there is no strong presumption, he should accept the assumption of less number of Rak’aat, i.e. if he is doubtful whether the number of offered Rak’aat are three or four, he should consider them to be three; if he is doubtful whether the number of offered Rak’aat are two or three, he should consider them to be two and so on. In this case, he should perform Qa’dah in the third as well as in the fourth Rak’at, as the third Rak’at may also be the fourth one. After the Qa’dah of the fourth Rak’at, he should perform Sajdah Sahw but if he is following strong presumption, no Sajdah Sahw is needed.
My master A’la Hadrat, the leader of the Ahl-e-Sunnah, Maulana Shah Imam Ahmad Raza Khan عَـلَيْهِ رَحْمَةُ الـرَّحْمٰن has stated: If there is any doubt whether he has offered three Rak’aat or four, he should consider them to be three, offer one more Rak’at and perform Sajdah Sahw. If he has actually offered five Rak’aat in this case, it is as if these two Sujood of Sahw will serve as one Rak’at, completing a set of two Rak’aat. There will be no single Rak’at which is invalid by Shari’ah. In other words, it is as if
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